Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.